Abstract

Forest management is referring to the paradigm of community-based forest management. The benefit of community forests is expected to be not only an ecological support but also be able to support their daily needs. The government was startan encouragement to plant fast growing trees such as sengon because of the wood’s demand never drops from time to time. Sengon trees are vulnerable to caterpillar pest attacks, therefore farmershave to lose money and need business protection. From the agricultural sector, the Indonesian Government has issued an agricultural insurance policy to protect rice farmers and livestock from crop failure. The purpose of this study was to analyze community forest farmer’s intereston implementation of agricultural insurance in their forests. The analytical method is quantitative description, to determine thefarmers level of interested on agricultural insurance implementation using the Likert scale determination technique. Based on the results of the study showed that the interest of community forest farmers in implementing agricultural insurance in Sukoharjo 1 Village, PringsewuDistrict amounted to 58% included in the category of doubt. Factors that influence the level of farmer interest are age, income, farming experience, education, management constraints, farmer group activities, extension activities, and information access.
Keywords: community forest, agricultural insurance, sengon